Senegal appoint Kasperczak as new coach

DAKAR, May 13 (Reuters) - Senegal have appointed Polish coach Henryk Kasperczak to manage the national side on a two-year contract, the Senegalese Football Federation said.

Kasperczak, a World Cup semi-finalist with Poland in his
playing days, has already coached the national sides of Ivory
Coast, Tunisia and Mali.

'It's Henryk Kaspercazk who will be on the coaching bench
for the Lions,' the President of the Senegalese Football
Federation Mbaye Ndoye said late on Friday, calling the
Senegalese squad by its nickname 'the Lions of Teranga'.

Kasperczak is one of the most experienced coaches in the
African Nations Cup tournament, with 21 games under his belt.

He took the Ivory Coast to the semi-finals in 1994, Tunisia
to the 1996 final and the last eight two years later and Mali to
the semi-finals in 2002. The next African Nations Cup will be
held in Ghana in 2008.

After shining in the 2002 World Cup where they reached the
quarter-finals, the Senegalese national side have performed
disappointingly in recent tournaments. They failed to qualify
for this year's World Cup in Germany.